Featured Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?

Actual experiments verify the time dilation effect. It also predicts apparent displacement of star positions when the stars are approaching being occluded by the sun. Again, verified by measurements during solar eclipses. It also predicts that the orbit of Mercury cannot be predicted by Newtonian physics, Yet again, verified.

I am not going to attept to teach you General Relativity. It is a graduate school Physics course, and the symbols needed for the ath are not available on this forum.

Actually, the predicted universe is a closed system. head off in any direction and you will eventually return to the same point....sorta. There is no center (but there is an apparent one everywhere.)
the rapid expansion "after the big bang" is not "supernatural" . God is the author of ALL natural law!

 

What do I know of God? What He has personally told me. Do you know God personally? I do.

 

I would never consider it to be an attack. Of course. I have to say that I'm in a bit of blur when it comes to this distinction. Supernatural, so to say, versus Natural. I know what we are taught and that we blindly obey the laws of nature. I guess I wasn't very clear about this. I am not blinded by what we 'know' for sure nor am I small minded when it comes to religious beliefs. I actually feel that you need bravery and great courage to jump from common beliefs of what we learned to be logical and to believe in something beyond our imagination and reality that we know. Several times I said KNOW, because I believe that knowledge is slowing us down to finding whatever is to be found. Call it a revelation, New Testament a thought of God. It doesn't matter. I want to believe that we are wrong about many things considering the laws of nature.

 

"Blindly obey" the laws of Nature implies that it is a matter of choice. A planet does not choose to follow an orbit. Obey is probably not a good word to use when we tqalk about the laws of nature. We can choose to break the traffic laws, or to steal. We cannot choose to react to gravity, or follow the laws of motion.

 

Enjoying your conversation with yourself, I see...

 

If the universe is expanding, what's the space in which it is expanding called? Wouldn't that mean that there is something outside the universe?

 

Huh? Is there a Biblical basis for you believing the universe to be unlimited? Wouldn't that make the universe rival its Creator?

If it's all the universe, we can't very well say that it's expanding if it, the inside and outside,
is the universe.

I have never seen any Biblical evidence that the universe was anything other than finite.Or that when God created everything, that He created it any other way but perfectly.

Perhaps it is a mistake to try to define the universe in terms of unlimited space but rather in terms of time weaving a history while pushed up against eternity?

Maybe that would explain the seeming advanced age of the light from the stars because what we are calling space (universe) is actually time (the eternity stream) stretching right up to God's throne from which He created it.

Think about it. If the Earth is only 6000 years old, then there is probably a spacial barrier out there that encapsulates everything that was created at that 6000 year old point.Everything past that point could be viewed as having been before God spoke our heavens and earth into existence.

This again could account for the seemingly billions year old light from some stars. And for an eternal God, light from billions upon billions of years ago isn't that big a stretch when you're talking eternal and always has been.